Table 1. mRNA expression levels in primary cultures of undifferentiated (day 1) and differentiated (day 14) pre-adipocytes from Chub-S7 cells and subcutaneous pre-adipocytes tissue as measured by real-time PCR.

	Chub-S7 cells			Subcutaneous Pre-adipocytes
Gene	Pre-adipocytes (day 1)	Differentiated (day 14)	p	Pre-adipocytes (day 1)	Differentiated (day 14)	p
FABP4	0.01±0.003	75.5.±6.79	<0.005	1.46±0.41	37.57±11.86	<0.005
FAS	0.57±0.05	7.15±0.9	<0.01	1.23±0.23	6.54±1.39	<0.005
ACC1	0.35±0.04	0.79±0.05	<0.05	0.28±0.03	0.54±0.09	ns
ACC2	0.05±0.01	2.03±0.14	<0.005	0.07±0.04	2.88±0.74	<0.005
AMPKα1	0.63±0.07	0.41±0.02	ns	0.88±0.53	0.70±0.24	ns
AMPKα2	0.07±0.01	0.04±0.004	ns	0.05±0.02	0.09±0.05	ns
COP1	0.56±0.04	0.48±0.04	ns	0.48±0.12	0.28±0.08	ns
TRB3	0.41±0.13	0.13±0.01	ns	0.94±0.26	0.16±0.01	<0.05

Data are presented as arbitrary units (mean±se, n = 3–6 experiments).